The recant referandum on divorce in Italy was a E Political lines were drawn very sharply in the Christian Democrats-taking a hard anti-divorce s the right despite the open intervention of the Cat Italy's Christian Democratic Prime Minister, R ruls with a Government that was split down the headed by a party whose position was massively r ¡taly is thus facing a big political crisis at a tim faction and readiness to struggle on the part of it The following interview with an Italian Trotsk the Fiat car plants, confirms this fact in a first-he Itslian workers have waged in recent months all it was necessary to go beyond the union's list of demands and to develop a goneralised struggle of all the workers in Italy apainst the incomes and employment policy of tbe Government and the bosses. In that framework the occupation of Fiat could be taken as tho starting point to develop a general strike which imposes a different relationship of forces between management and the working On the following Monday, there was a repetition of what had happened in the preceding week, with strikes, meetings, etc. That kind of strugele continued until the day of the general strike. Later, the unions managed to regain control of the sicuation, systematically boycotting these struggles, they even used blacklegs and the most backward elements in
did indeed almost bring the banking system to halt, eventually, In particular, the servicing of xports was greatly hampered. Operations were only kopt going by foreign hanks-which slapLAIL